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    ENGINE PERFORMANCE ON ATOMIZATION OF FUEL INJECTOR: A REVIEW

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    The impact of the fuel injection of fuel atoms on engine performance has been investigated to improve fuel efficiency and waste disposal features. The fuel swirl method for injection atomization was evaluated both by the analysis of the fuel flow and the sample test. The goal of the paper is to establish good fuel atomization over the range of engine performance. As a result of our studies, it has been concluded that the desired atomization can be achieved when gasoline is thrown into a circular motion. Fuel spray and atomization features play an important role in the performance of internal combustion engines. An atomization study to evaluate the numerical fuel injection used in the IGC (Inner Guide-vane Combustor) under various combination and performance conditions has been performed to determine the suspension of the proposed fuel injection to be used in the IGC. Additional results have shown that a single-hole fuel injection, forward injection direction, and a splash of

    Super Landau-Ginzburg mirrors and algebraic cycles

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    We investigate the super Landau-Ginzburg mirrors of gauged linear sigma models which, in an appropriate low energy limit, reduce to nonlinear sigma models with Kaehler supermanifold target spaces of nonnegative super-first Chern class.Comment: 29 pages, 5 figures, uses edited version of jheppub.sty. Dedicated to our dear friend and coauthor Maximilian Kreuzer, who died November 26, 2010. v3: Modifications to the Introduction, Equations (4.2), (5.2), and (6.2), and Remark 8.2. v2: Theorem A.1 and Corollary A.1 corrected; corresponding changes made in Section 4. Minor change in Section 2. Minor changes in Section

    Spinodal Instabilities in Nuclear Matter in a Stochastic Relativistic Mean-Field Approach

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    Spinodal instabilities and early growth of baryon density fluctuations in symmetric nuclear matter are investigated in the basis of stochastic extension of relativistic mean-field approach in the semi-classical approximation. Calculations are compared with the results of non-relativistic calculations based on Skyrme-type effective interactions under similar conditions. A qualitative difference appears in the unstable response of the system: the system exhibits most unstable behavior at higher baryon densities around ρb=0.4 ρ0\rho_{b}=0.4 ~\rho_{0} in the relativistic approach while most unstable behavior occurs at lower baryon densities around ρb=0.2 ρ0\rho_{b}=0.2 ~\rho_{0} in the non-relativistic calculationsComment: 18 pages, 7 figure

    Oil palm smallholders and its sustainability practices in Malaysia

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    The demand for Palm oil has increasing over the several decades and it has led to criticisms and question about sustainability on biodiversity loss, water pollution and deforestation.This study aims to explore the sustainability of oil palm smallholders in Malaysia based on environmental, social and economic perspectives.The aim of the study is to examine the sustainability of smallholding scheme in Malaysia.A questionnaire survey was conducted with 50 smallholders in Terengganu state under the Federal Land Development Authority of Malaysia (FELDA).It’s revealed that most of the smallholders have sufficient knowledge of sustainability consistent with Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) and other local agricultural laws practices. The study also indicates that on social aspect, the smallholders have better quality of life through the provision of basic facilities.The study concludes that there is a high degree of sustainability amongst oil palm smallholders under the management of FELDA

    The response of a neutral atom to a strong laser field probed by transient absorption near the ionisation threshold

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    We present transient absorption spectra of an extreme ultraviolet attosecond pulse train in helium dressed by an 800 nm laser field with intensity ranging from 2times10122times10^{12} W/cm2^2 to 2times10142times10^{14} W/cm2^2. The energy range probed spans 16-42 eV, straddling the first ionisation energy of helium (24.59 eV). By changing the relative polarisation of the dressing field with respect to the attosecond pulse train polarisation we observe a large change in the modulation of the absorption reflecting the vectorial response to the dressing field. With parallel polarized dressing and probing fields, we observe significant modulations with periods of one half and one quarter of the dressing field period. With perpendicularly polarized dressing and probing fields, the modulations of the harmonics above the ionisation threshold are significantly suppressed. A full-dimensionality solution of the single-atom time-dependent Schr odinger equation obtained using the recently developed ab-initio time-dependent B-spline ADC method reproduce some of our observations

    Adsorption efficiency of banana blossom peels (musa acuminata colla) adsorbent for chromium (VI) removal

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    The discharge of waste from industries into water has caused heavy metal pollution posing health risk to biota such as lead and chromium (VI). Once the water has been polluted, it will limit the accessibility to clean freshwater. Therefore, this paper aims to evaluate the adsorption efficiency of banana blossom peels for the chromium (Cr) (VI) removal under different pH (1, 4, 7, and 10). Extraction of banana blos�som peels adsorbent was carried out via chemical treatment using 0.1 M of HCI and 5% (w/v) NaOH solu�tion. The morphology and functional groups of extracted banana blossom peels adsorbent were then characterized using scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), and subsequently, the Cr (VI) removal efficiency was examined using ultraviolet–visible spec�troscopy (UV–VIS). The extracted banana blossom peels adsorbent is found to have wavy surface with shallow dents. Results demonstrated that adsorbent at pH 10 have the optimum removal of Cr (VI) with 18.87% followed by pH 7 (18.36%), pH 4 (12.28%) and pH 1 (12.00%) after 8 h. The maximum Cr (VI) adsorption capacity is 227.27 mg/g. In this study, the pseudo-second-order model best describes the adsorption process. Langmuir isotherm model is more favorable with high correlation coefficient of 0.99. In conclusion, adsorbent extracted from banana blossom has the potential to be used for Cr (VI) removal in water sources and reduce disposal of agricultural wastes by transforming it into a valuable material

    A Sparse Stress Model

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    Force-directed layout methods constitute the most common approach to draw general graphs. Among them, stress minimization produces layouts of comparatively high quality but also imposes comparatively high computational demands. We propose a speed-up method based on the aggregation of terms in the objective function. It is akin to aggregate repulsion from far-away nodes during spring embedding but transfers the idea from the layout space into a preprocessing phase. An initial experimental study informs a method to select representatives, and subsequent more extensive experiments indicate that our method yields better approximations of minimum-stress layouts in less time than related methods.Comment: Appears in the Proceedings of the 24th International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization (GD 2016
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